Jonathan D. Riddle
@jonathandriddle.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Natalia is as smart, compelling, and kind in person as she seems in her public work.
I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Fit Nation
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, stronger future. If...
press.uchicago.edu
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Natalia is as smart, compelling, and kind in person as she seems in her public work.
I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I'm thrilled that my new health humanities minor is now live, and even more thrilled that the incomparable @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social helped launch the program by delivering its inaugural lecture!
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
Health Humanities Minor Launches at Seaver College with Inaugural Guest Lecture
Seaver College has launched a new heath humanities minor available to undergraduate students beginning this 2025 fall semester. Jonathan Riddle serves as the program's coordinator.
seaver.pepperdine.edu
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm thrilled that my new health humanities minor is now live, and even more thrilled that the incomparable @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social helped launch the program by delivering its inaugural lecture!
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
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Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles.
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’
Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles.
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA:
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
Jillian Michaels Backs RFK Jr.’s Health Movement - NewsBreak
Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels has supported Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. She
www.newsbreak.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA:
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija.
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.
time.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija.
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
This is more than I expected!
Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
August 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is more than I expected!
Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate.
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Mayo Clinic refused employee's COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, lawsuit says
A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the Mayo Clinic violated federal law when it refused a security guard's request to be exempt from getting the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs.
www.cbsnews.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate.
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Something akin to the way Emily K. Abel's article on the Gillespies reveals so much about women and caregiving in the home in the nineteenth-century US. It's great and teachable.
July 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Something akin to the way Emily K. Abel's article on the Gillespies reveals so much about women and caregiving in the home in the nineteenth-century US. It's great and teachable.
Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates.
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
July 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates.
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
I'm so sorry to hear this. How terribly cruel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm so sorry to hear this. How terribly cruel.
Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides.
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
Opinion | The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides.
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
Faith, Fitness, and the New Gospel of #Gains: Inside the Conflicted World of Christian Bodybuilders
Christian bodybuilders and fitfluencers are ascending to greater heights of visibility—and facing compelling questions about lust, idolatry, and purpose.
www.menshealth.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.
Courtesy of Andrew Dunning, Zotero and other CSL-supporting reference managers now have full support for Chicago Manual 18th edition: www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chi... (there's a dizzying variety bc CMoS gives you a lot of choices www.zotero.org/styles?q=id%... is your most generic option)
Zotero Style Repository
www.zotero.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.
@catherinemcneur.bsky.social talks about the pigs that roamed the streets of nineteenth-century NYC in *Taming Manhattan.* www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Taming Manhattan — Harvard University Press
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Soci...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@catherinemcneur.bsky.social talks about the pigs that roamed the streets of nineteenth-century NYC in *Taming Manhattan.* www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic.
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Post-COVID, church-shifting has created more ideological agreement – Baptist News Global
The COVID pandemic facilitated a greater sorting of churchgoers into more ideological groups than before
baptistnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic.
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!
Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want?
That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for.
Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping
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That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for.
Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Make Your Manuscript Work
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionals
press.princeton.edu
June 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!
Even better, it's part of a cluster hire.
June 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Even better, it's part of a cluster hire.
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Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️
Understood! Thanks again for the recommendation.
June 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Understood! Thanks again for the recommendation.
I just ordered it! I've previously assigned Washington's *Medical Apartheid* for this perspective. How do you think they compare?
June 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I just ordered it! I've previously assigned Washington's *Medical Apartheid* for this perspective. How do you think they compare?
I'm currently spamming my ILL librarian. Thank you!
June 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I'm currently spamming my ILL librarian. Thank you!